Friendship with the World
1 Why do you fight and argue with each other? Isn't it because you are full of selfish desires that fight to control your body? 2 You want something you don't have, and you will do anything to get it. You will even kill! But you still cannot get what you want, and you won't get it by fighting and arguing. You should pray for it. 3 Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons.
4 You people aren't faithful to God! Don't you know if you love the world, you are God's enemies? And if you decide to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. 5 Do you doubt the Scriptures that say, “God truly cares about the Spirit he has put in us”? 6 In fact, God treats us with even greater kindness, just as the Scriptures say,
“God opposes everyone
who is proud,
but he blesses all who are humble
with undeserved grace.”
7 Surrender to God! Resist the devil, and he will run from you. 8 Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind. 9 Be sad and sorry and weep. Stop laughing and start crying. Be gloomy instead of glad. 10 Be humble in the Lord's presence, and he will honor you.
Saying Cruel Things about Others
11 My friends, don't say cruel things about others! If you do, or if you condemn others, you are condemning God's Law. And if you condemn the Law, you put yourself above the Law and refuse to obey either it 12 or God who gave it. God is our judge, and he can save or destroy us. What right do you have to condemn anyone?
Warning against Bragging
13 You should know better than to say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to the city. We will do business there for a year and make a lot of money!” 14 What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears. 15 You should say, “If the Lord lets us live, we will do these things.” 16 Yet you are stupid enough to brag, and it is wrong to be so proud. 17 If you don't do what you know is right, you have sinned.
Okukala nuukuume nuuyuni
1 Omalugodhi noontamanana mokati keni ohayi zi peni? Ohayi zi muuhalu weni mboka tau kondjo aluhe momalutu geni. 2 One omu na okahalu, ihe ihamu likola. Ohamu dhipaga nohamu haluka noonkondo, ihe itamu mono sha. Ohamu tamanana e tamu kondjo. Ne omu li moluhepo, oshoka inamu indila oompumbwe dheni kuKalunga. 3 Nuuna tamu indile, itamu pewa, oshoka omalalakano geni omawinayi. Mbyoka tamu yi indile, ohamu ke yi longitha muuhalu weni yene. 4 Kamu shi aainekelwa! Inamu tseya nani kutya okukala mu na uukuume nuuyuni okwo okutonda Kalunga? Ngoka a hala okukala e na uukuume nuuyuni, oti iningi e tonde Kalunga. 5 Enyolo itali popi osima, sho tali ti:
“Ombepo ndjika Kalunga e yi tula mutse,
oku na uukodhi nayo.”
6 Ihe esilohenda lyaKalunga oli na oonkondo li vule ayihe. Ongaashi enyolo tali ti:
“Kalunga ota tondo mboka ye hole uuntsa,
ihe ota sile ohenda mboka yi ifupipika.”
7 Vulikeni ano kuKalunga. Kondjitheni Satana, ye note mu yi ontuku. 8 Hedheni kuKalunga, ye nota hedha kune. Yelitheni iikaha yeni, ne aalunde. Opalekeni omitima dheni, ne aafudhime. 9 Tseyeni uukweyi weni, seni oluhodhi ne mu lile. Okuyola kweni naku shituke okulila, nenyanyu lyeni nali ninge oluhodhi. 10 Ifupipikeni koshipala shOmuwa, oye note mu nenepeke.
Inamu pangulathana
11 Aamwameme, inamu lundilathana. Ngoka ta lundile mukwawo nenge te mu pangula, oye ota lundile ompango e te yi pangula. Ngele oto pangula ompango, nena ito vulu we oku yi gwanitha, ihe oto ningi omupanguli gwayo. 12 Kalunga oye omugandjimpango nomupanguli. Oye awike ta vulu okuhupitha nokweekelahi. Ongoye lye ano, u vule okupangula mukweni?
Inamu inenepeka
13 Ano pulakenii ndje, ne mboka hamu ti: “Nena nenge ngula otatu ka ya koshilando shontumba noshongandi. Otatu ka ninga ko omumvo, tatu halitha e tatu likola iimaliwa oyindji.” 14 Kamu shi wo, ngele ngula omutse otagu ka kala kumwe nothingo! One omwa fa etsinauko lyolwithi, ndyoka tali holoka okathimbo, notali kana po. 15 Omu na okutya: “Omuwa ngele e shi hala, otatu ka kala tu na omwenyo, e tatu longo shika naashiyaka.” 16 Ihe ngashingeyi omu na uuntsa neitango; eitango lya tya ngeyi olya puka.
17 Onkee ano ngoka e shi kutya oku na okulonga uuwanawa, ndele ite shi ningi, oye oku na oondjo.
